Strangelight Workshop Part 2

IRON KINGDOMS RPG
STRANGELIGHT
WORKSHOP PART II
by Josh Colón, Matt Goetz, and Douglas Seacat
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The Strangelight Workshop is a private institute that investigates and resolves incidents of
occult phenomena. Most often the services of the Strangelight Workshop are contracted for a
price, but the organization sometimes conducts its own investigations and may do pro bono
work if there is a high chance of gathering rare information of interest to the Strangelight
Workshop. The organization is primarily interested in study of otherworldly entities,
particularly grymkin, infernals, and the disembodied dead. They also investigate matters of
the occult and black magic. However, such “mundane” cases generally lie outside the core
interests of the Strangelight Workshop and are undertaken only for the purpose of garnering
monetary compensation or when pertinent to other research. The Strangelight Workshop is
primarily active in Cygnar and Ord, where it has small branch offices in several cities, but it
has agents and contacts scattered across all of western Immoren.
T he mysterious industrialist Jacob Strathmoore founded the

Strangelight Workshop in 593 AR. Strathmoore, known as
a brilliant mechanik and inventor, became obsessed with the
CHARACTER CREATION
Your character is your persona in the Strangelight Workshop,
occult world of spirits and supernatural phenomenon and made a member of a field team through which you’ll fight to uncover
research of it his top priority in life. He transformed the massive the supernatural mysteries of the Iron Kingdoms, do battle
estate, Blackwell Hall, into the nexus of his organization against the disembodied dead, and earn enough gold to make
and poured unfathomable amounts of gold into developing a living.
new machines and techniques for observing, recording, and
capturing supernatural entities. Characters created for a Strangelight Workshop game do not
follow the conventional rules of character creation. After
Strathmoore may be the founder and patron of the Strangelight selecting a race (FMF Core Rules, pp. 108–114), do not select an
Workshop, but its members seldom see him. Some even believe archetype or two careers. Instead, use the following steps.
him to be vanished or dead. Instead, a handpicked team of
top-level agents manages the Workshop and its duties, working • Select Background: Choose one of the available
under the scrutinizing eyes of Commander Banning Keller, the Backgrounds. A character can have only one Background.
Workshop’s second in command. • Select Calling: Choose a Calling. A character can have
The basic unit of the Strangelight Workshop is the field team. only one Calling. Calling also determines a character’s
Comprised of several specialists under the guidance of a lead breaking point. A character’s Calling may change over the
investigator, field teams investigate claims of the supernatural course of their career (see “Choosing a Calling”).
on the Workshop’s behalf—and they negotiate any payment for • Choose a Profession: Choose a Profession. A character
dealing with a supernatural entity, should one be discovered. can have only one Profession. A Profession determines a
Several field teams are in operation across the Iron Kingdoms, character’s starting abilities, skills, and gear.
scattered between minor chapterhouses in major cities and
• Increase Stats: Spend three improvement points to
Blackwell Hall itself.
increase the character’s stats, up to racial maximums.
• Purchase Equipment: If you have any additional gc from
your background or profession to spend, you can use it to
purchase starting equipment on p. 74 or from the Full
Metal Fantasy Core Rulebook.
• Character Advancement: Strangelight characters use
a unique character advancement table included in this
document.
All characters start the game with 1 Reputation point (after
all, they had to have done something in order to convince the
Workshop to offer them the position).
Baxter Roan (Investigator), Sydney Wright (Bouncer),

Emmett Cohen (Mechanik), Evalyn di Mattys (Caller),
and Dalton Thatcher (Jammer) standing outside Blackwell Hall
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BACKGROUND otherwise restricted university libraries, assistance in dealing

with research topics, or simply a place to crash in a dormitory
Nearly every member of the Strangelight Workshop, both while out on assignment.
the numerous field agents and the senior members of the Scholar: When you gain occupational skills through character
organization, started their lives on another path. The Workshop advancement, you gain 1 additional occupational skill.
is a small and esoteric society considered by many to be a
collection of lunatics, scam artists, or eccentrics obsessed with
unsavory occult matters. Typically, the people who join up with
Adventurer
it only do so after a transformational experience related to the Your life has always been one thrilling exploit followed by
supernatural world (see “Calling,” p. 58). These people are another. As you wandered across the Iron Kingdoms in
the ideal candidates for the Strangelight Workshop, as they are search of fortune and glory, you became adept at overcoming
willing to leave behind their old lives and throw themselves dangerous situations, using your wits and a growing
into uncovering the secrets of hauntings, grymkin, infernals, assortment of skills to deal with whatever crossed your path.
and other occult matters. Your experiences abroad have made you quick thinking and
resourceful.
The fact that most members lived very different lives before
becoming members has its advantages. The diversity of Starting Resources: You start the game with an armored
backgrounds among the Strangelight Workshop members greatcoat, a melee or ranged weapon worth up to 20 gc, a
provides the organization with a wide range of experience traveling pack filled with miscellaneous and possibly useful
and skills to draw on. This is particularly valuable among items gathered over your career, 20 gc, and a seemingly endless
field agents. The best research can miss a key element of an number of stories, some of them passably amusing.
investigation, so having agents able to comprehend a range of
Sounds Familiar: Your life of adventure has made you familiar
complications and tasks is vital to success. While not an official
with all sorts of unusual information. Once per session, with
policy, the people responsible for accepting new field agents
the Game Master’s permission, you may spend a point of
review a potential candidate’s background, hoping to expand
Reputation to recall an obscure piece of trivia that may point
the Workshop’s broad base of skills, knowledge, and abilities.
the team to the next clue or allow you to learn an item of lore
associated with a single creature.
Choosing a Background Well-Traveled: You have accumulated a variety of skills in your
Your character’s Background represents what they did prior travels. You begin the game with 1 point in a single Military
to joining up with the Strangelight Workshop and in part Skill and two different occupational skills of your choice. Add
determines the character’s capabilities in game. A character your chosen skills at level 4 to your list of potential military and
can only have one background, and it must be chosen during occupational skills.
character creation.
Each background provides unique benefits in the forms of Craftsman
skills, abilities, equipment, or other valuable resources. Your You are good with your hands and have developed a trade for
character begins the game with all benefits listed in the chosen yourself. Whether through formal education, apprenticeship
Background. under a master, or pure self-motivation and grit, you have
become proficient at your craft. You might have been an
Academic innovative mechanik who spent years toiling away in your
workshop, a skilled gunsmith who fabricated weapons for the
You spent your life in the academic field. You might have
Cygnaran Armory, or a jack-of-all trades with experience in
been a professional student from one of the many prestigious
multiple fields. Your proficiency as a craftsman lets you intuit
universities of the Iron Kingdoms, a professor devoted to an
practical solutions to problems and gives you an eye for detail.
esoteric field of study, or a self-taught student who spent years
poring over rare books in scattered shops and lamp-lit back Starting Resources: You start the game with goggles, a
rooms. Your experience as an academic gives you a critical eye mechanik’s apron, reliable tools (counts as mechanik’s toolkit),
and a broad knowledge base. and a desire to make the finest quality whatever-it-is you make.
Starting Resources: You start the game with a pen and ink, Reliable tools: You have a set of reliable tools from your
bottled light, blank notebook, collection of esoteric research time as a craftsman. You can reroll 1s when making Craft or
notes (choice of +1 to Lore [extraordinary zoology], Lore Mechanikal Engineering rolls made using the mechanik’s
[supernatural], or Research rolls), and the constant belief that toolkit you begin the game with. This replaces the toolkit a
the pen is mightier than the sword.* Mechanik character starts the game with.
*Note: It isn’t, usually. Good with Your Hands: You begin the game 1 skill point in
three Craft skills. Choose from the following list: carpentry,
Connections (Academic): You maintain connections in the
gunsmithing, metalworking, stoneworking, tailoring, or
academic world that you can call upon in times of need, such
tanning. Add Craft (chosen specialties) 4 to your list of potential
as a professor at a local university or a librarian in charge of
occupational skills.
an important archive. Aid can come in the form of access to
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Scapegrace: You start the game with Sneak 1 and your choice
Criminal of Deception 1, Escape Artist 1, Forgery 1, Lock Picking 1, or
You spent time as a criminal. You might have been a former Streetwise 1. Add Sneak 4 and your chosen skill at level 4 to
pickpocket who worked with a gang of paupers to survive, a your list of potential occupational skills.
second-story man who broke into the bedrooms of the rich and
privileged while they slept, or a simple thug who hurt people on Diplomat
a crime boss’ orders. Your experience allows you to move in the
You spent time in diplomatic circles and are familiar with
criminal underworld and affords you special talents that may
complex social interactions. You might have been a negotiator
come in handy while on assignment.
working on behalf of a merchant house like the Mateus or
Starting Resources: You start the game with a suit of dark Mercarian League, assigned to aid a foreign dignitary, or
clothing (+1 to Sneaking rolls), a set of thief’s tools, and a worked in the halls of city government arbitrating deals
lingering desire to amass ill-gotten gains. between the city fathers. Your experience as a diplomat gives
you a silver tongue and the ability to talk down even hostile
Connections (Criminal): You maintain connections to the
individuals while out on assignment.
criminal underworld that you can call upon in times of need,
such as with a low-level criminal boss in the city or with a gang Starting Resources: You start the game with a suit of fine
of young guttersnipes living in the street. Assistance can come in clothes (+1 to non-Intimidation social rolls), supplies for drawing
the form of information about comings and goings on the streets, up contracts and diplomatic letters (pen, ink, parchment, wax,
surveillance of specific subjects, aid breaking into a particular and signet ring or stamp), and the misguided belief that people
location, or a secluded hideout if you need to lay low for a while. can all just get along.
Tools of the Trade: You start the game with a selection of Language Arts: You start the game knowing two additional
appropriate tools from your old life. Choose two of the languages.
following: crowbar, disguise kit, grappling hook and 25´ rope,
Diplomatic: You start the game with Etiquette 1, Law 1, and
spyglass, or three smoke bombs.
Negotiation 1. Add Etiquette 4, Law 4, and Negotiation 4 to your
list of potential occupational skills.
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Medical
You served in the medical field for some time. You might have
been a doctor working in a city’s clinic, a battlefield medic
helping treat the wounded on the front lines, or a traditional
healer combatting illnesses and injuries with poultices and
teas in the wilderness of western Immoren. Your time as a
healer gives you experience in treating a wide range of injuries,
physical or otherwise.
Starting Resources: You start the game with bottled light, a
surgical kit, and a working knowledge of what people look like
on the inside.
Emergency Aid: With a surgical kit, you can treat an injured
living character as a full action. Make a Medicine skill
roll against a target number of 14. If the roll succeeds, an
incapacitated character adjacent to you regains 1 vitality point
and may reroll any Injury table result, choosing which of the
results are applied to the character.
Medical Training: You start the game with Medicine 1 and
Rapport 1. Add Medicine 4 and Rapport 4 to your list of
potential Occupational skills.
Military or City Watch

Having served in your nation’s armed forces or town militia,
you are no stranger to death and horror. You might have been
part of the frontline infantry, fighting in the trenches at the
fore of battle, an officer used to commanding others while
under pressure, or a member of the city watch who protected
the citizens of your hometown. Your experience affords you
a stern resolve and fighting prowess beyond that of most
Strangelight agents.
Starting Resources: You start the game with a uniform,
military-issue pack and personal equipment, sword, second
weapon (choose one: blunderbuss with five rounds of ammo,
military rifle with five rounds of ammo, or repeating pistol with
fifteen rounds of ammo), and the knowledge of what it sounds
like when someone dies.
Connections (Military or Watch): You maintain connections
in the military or city watch that you can call upon in times of
need. Your connection might be a supply sergeant at the local
garrison, a former commanding officer, or a soldier-turned
mercenary living in the city. Assistance can come in the form
of access to otherwise restricted areas, a supply of ammunition
that “goes missing,” or even the temporary loan of a piece of
military hardware. Watch contacts may afford some leniency
with minor legal transgressions.
Military Training: You start the game with Hand Weapon 1 and
your choice of Pistol 1, Rifle 1, or Law 1. Add Hand Weapon
4 and either Pistol 4, Rifle 4, or Law 4 to your list of potential
Military and Occupational skills.
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Connections (Nobility): You have connections among the
Occult nobility that you can call upon in times of need. This is likely
You have a past as part of the darker occult world of the Iron due to your noble blood, but your connection can also come
Kingdoms. You might be a former—or current—member of an in other forms, such as a family your own was close with.
unsavory organization devoted to dark powers, the onetime Assistance can come as access to a noble estate or invitation to
victim of a cult who was rescued by the Strangelight Workshop, an exclusive function, introductions to high-society individuals,
someone with a desire to learn more about gaining power or even a “small loan” of a hundred gold crowns to help get you
over the supernatural world, or someone just fascinated with a back on your feet in times of trouble. Nobles tend to be a touchy
particular secret occult order’s beliefs. Your experience with the group obsessed with appearances, so your connection may turn
occult gives you a greater familiarity with the supernatural and their back on you if you cause any trouble for them, like ranting
related subjects than most new Workshop agents. about the supernatural at a society function.
Starting Resources: You start the game with a book filled with
occult lore (choice of +1 on Lore: Occult or Lore: Supernatural
Religious
rolls), symbol of faith, ritual dagger, 10 black candles, and a Your faith has always been an important part of you. This
constant sense of dread and impending doom. may have led you to joining the clergy or merely proselytizing
to anyone who would listen. You might follow the creed of
Connections (Occult Group): You maintain connections to an
Cyriss, Menoth, Morrow, or even Thamar, and you may have
active or disbanded occult group that you were either once
been a member of the priesthood or simply a fervent believer.
a member of or that you otherwise had affiliation with. This
Your faith gives you an unwavering resolve in the face of even
might be to the group as a whole or a single member. If you
supernatural dangers and acts as a guiding light in all you do.
are not an active member, this group may be wary of your
presence, but in times of need you can call upon them to aid Starting Resources: You start the game with a book of scripture
you. Assistance from your connection can come in the form (+1 on Lore: [Your Religion] rolls), a symbol of faith appropriate
of information related to the occult, a hidden ritual space, or for your religion, incense or anointed oil, and a perhaps
even materials vital to occult activities, up to and including mistaken belief that your god has your best interests at heart.
kidnapped individuals. If you are not an active member of an
Blessing of Faith: You gain boosted Willpower rolls to resist
occult group, this assistance frequently comes with a catch. Your
Terror caused by profane and unholy entities such as the undead,
connection may ask you to perform certain favors or errands for
infernals, and magic. In addition to regaining Willpower by
them, like destroying evidence that would reveal the group to
fulfilling your Calling, you regain 1 point of lost Willpower for
the Strangelight Workshop.
each night spent in prayer or attending religious services.
Sensitive: You possess the ability to feel when the arcane,
Connections (Your Religion’s Clergy): You maintain connections
the occult, and the otherworldly are near. In the presence of
in the clergy that you can call upon in times of need, such as a
these forces, your skin prickles and your blood gets colder.
mid-level priest at a local church, a religious scribe working in
You can detect magical, ghostly, and otherworldly energy in
a monastery, or another servant of your religion. Assistance can
your Command range, but you do not know the source of such
come in the form of access to church structures, sanctuary from
energy or its precise location.
pursuers, and aid in treatment of matters physical, mental, or
spiritual.
Noble
Born to a life of privilege and culture, you are well prepared
to traverse the upper echelons of society. While brought up
with the strictest schooling, you also had the spare time and
resources to delve into knowledge normally forbidden to others.
Your connections among the nobility often prove an asset to
your lower-born companions, who rely on you to wield the rules
of etiquette and sophistication like a weapon.
Starting Resources: You start the game with a rapier or sword
cane, a suit of fine clothing (+1 to non-Intimidation social rolls),
100 gc, and a sense of superiority due to the strength of your
link to noble bloodlines.
Birthright: Your noble upbringing affords you special
consideration. Unless you are caught red-handed while
committing a crime, most city watch members assume you’re
permitted to travel where you want and to flaunt normal social
conventions. When you travel, you can secure accommodations
for yourself by using your family name—provided you aren’t
speaking with someone who hates or distrusts your family line,
like an innkeeper in an enemy nation.
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CALLING Breaking Point

The Strangelight Workshop is intended to be a character-driven When a character loses their last point of Willpower, that
game focused on the exploration of mysteries. As a result, one of character hits their breaking point. Each Calling has multiple
the core elements of character creation is a character’s Calling. ways that breaking points can be expressed. The player chooses
A character’s Calling is what drove the character to join the which breaking point a character enacts when the character hits
Strangelight Workshop in the first place, and it is the reason their breaking point. If a character cannot fulfill the parameters
the character risks life, limb, and sanity in the exploration of of their breaking point, that character can act normally but must
the unknown. This job is not for everyone, and each character’s immediately add 3 Dread points to the Game Master’s pool.
motivations are very personal. Hitting the breaking point is stressful and can have long-
At the most basic level, a Calling is a window into your character term consequences. After the third time a character hits their
and provides a solid hook for you to understand the character breaking point and every three times thereafter, the character
you are playing. A Calling also has an effect on how a character suffers a permanent one-point reduction of their Willpower
manages to regain composure following repeated exposure point maximum. This represents the ongoing psychological
to dreadful and dangerous supernatural phenomenon, and it scars such events have on an individual. Note that this
determines what happens to the character when they have been reduction does not affect the character’s Willpower stat.
pushed past their limit by such encounters. Should a character be reduced to a Willpower point maximum
of 0, the character becomes permanently mentally scarred.
Choosing a Calling This can manifest as mania, catatonia, or any number of other
maladies, but the consequences are the same: that character can
A character can only have one Calling. A character’s initial no longer be a part of the Strangelight Workshop and will bear
Calling is selected during character creation but, based on mental and spiritual scars for the remainder of their days.
significant events over the course of a character’s career
that cause a change in the character’s perspective on the
supernatural world, with Game Master approval the player Callings
may select a new Calling.
A character’s Calling helps determine when the character
Altruist
regains lost Willpower (see NQP 01) and determines their Cannot be a starting Calling.
breaking point.
You have grown much since you first joined the Strangelight
Example: Josh’s character is the sole survivor of a nasty Workshop. Through your experiences, you have learned to
investigation involving an infernal soul stalker. Josh decides set aside past traumas and to protect others from the sorts of
he wants to replace his Mercenary Calling with the Survivor dangers you have faced. Now only your sense of good will
Calling to reflect the trauma of the encounter and how it toward others acts as your motivation. While laudable, this will
affects his point of view. The Game Master approves, so Josh’s probably just get you killed faster.
character updates his Calling and uses Survivor to determine
his Willpower recovery and Breaking Point from that point on. Pursuing Your Calling
For every full hour of downtime you spend helping others
Pursuing Your Calling at Blackwell Hall or a Strangelight chapterhouse to complete
simple tasks or chores, add +1 to your roll to restore lost
By pursuing their Calling, a character gets in touch with the
Willpower.
reasons they are still a part of the Strangelight Workshop and
gains a bonus to the amount of Willpower restored during
Breaking Points
down time. The specific activities required to gain this bonus
are unique to each Calling. Good Samaritan: When you hit your breaking point, you must
spend your next activation aiding the nearest ally who is also
suffering from their breaking point, is incapacitated, or is below
their total vitality.
Emotional Appeal: When you hit your breaking point, you must
spend your next activation making a Rapport roll in an attempt
to reason with a hostile character with the highest available EP
value, regardless of whether or not you can communicate with
the character.
Death Wish
Cannot be a starting Calling.
You have lost everything that ever mattered
to you. You’re a hollow shell of the person you
once were. Even revenge seems pointless now.
The only thing you have left is to spend your
remaining days confronting the strange and
unnatural forces that ruined your life in the
hopes that those forces will someday get lucky
and finish the job.
Pursuing Your Calling

For every full hour of downtime you spend away
from others to silently brood, add +1 to your roll
to restore lost Willpower.
Breaking Points
Take Me Instead: When you hit your breaking
point, you must spend your next activation
making boosted Rapport rolls against any
supernatural creature in your Command range
engaged with any other living character. If the
roll is successful, target creature must attempt to
attack you instead of its original target.
Into the Fray: When you hit your breaking point,
you must end your next activation closer than
you began it to a source of potential danger.
Doomsayer
You’ve always been called negative, a killjoy, or Fanatic
just a plain old pessimist, but you know that in the end you’ll
always be proven right. Engaging with the supernatural is risky What once may have been considered a healthy—if unusual—
business, and in your mind, nothing gets someone killed faster curiosity for the paranormal has transformed into a full-blown
than naiveté. Still, the more one can learn about what goes obsession. Whether due to constant stress or growing delusions
bump in the night, the greater the chance the common person of grandeur, you have been consumed by the need to be in
might have of going about their quiet lives out of harm’s way. In contact with the supernatural. Everyone around you grows
the end, you feel that’s the least you can do before the inevitable increasingly worried about you, and you do not have the heart
oblivion that awaits us all. to tell them the truth, which is: they should be.
Pursuing Your Calling Pursuing Your Calling

For every full hour of downtime you spend reading about the For every full hour of downtime you spend badgering other
distressing events occurring around the Iron Kingdoms, add +1 characters about the supernatural, add +1 to your roll to restore
to your roll to restore lost Willpower. lost Willpower.
Breaking Points Breaking Points

I Told You So: When you hit your breaking point, you must I Must Know: When you hit your breaking point, you must
spend your next activation trying to convince another character spend your next activation asking direct questions to the
that you are right, either about your assessment of the present nearest supernatural entity. If the creature cannot communicate
situation or about a course of action to address it. verbally, you must try to interpret its physical mannerisms as
some form of answer.
If This Is the End: When you hit your breaking point, you must
spend your next activation doing one important thing before Euphoria: When you hit your breaking point, you are overcome
you die. This can include drinking whatever alcohol is nearby, by uncontrollable delight at the thrill of witnessing the
declaring your secret and undying love for another character, or supernatural. You must forfeit your movement or action on your
fulfilling some other equally embarrassing final wish. next activation.
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Glory Hound Pact Bound

You’ve always known that true immortality belongs to the Through incredibly desperate or foolish circumstances, you
innovators and trailblazers who redefined the borders of human have found yourself caught in a pact with dark supernatural
knowledge. You resolve to be counted among their number and entities. In a last-ditch effort to save what remains of your soul,
know that your best path to glory is within the Strangelight you joined the Strangelight Workshop, hoping to find a solution
Workshop. With this in mind, you have committed yourself to to your predicament before you become the subject of one of
being a pioneer of occult research, either in actuality or—at the their next cases.
very least—in the eyes of others.
Pursuing Your Calling For every full hour you spend researching lore on how to escape
For every full hour of downtime you spend taking part in the dark pact threatening your immortal soul, add +1 to your
actions that could be bragged about later, add +1 to your roll to roll to restore lost Willpower.
restore lost Willpower.
Breaking Points
Breaking Points Offering of Knowledge: When you hit your breaking point,
Autobiography: When you hit your breaking point, you must you must spend your next activation offering any equipment,
spend your next activation expounding on your greatest prototypes, or critical Workshop secrets you know to the nearest
personal accomplishments to any and all characters within supernatural creature with the highest INT score.
earshot. Greatly exaggerating these accomplishments beyond all
Offering of Blood: When you hit your breaking point, you
reason is to be expected and encouraged.
must spend your next activation attempting to force an ally
Parting Shot: When you hit your breaking point, you must to confront a source of danger in the hopes that the death of
spend your next activation attempting to gain a hold of the another might spare your own life.
team’s lumitype and take one final spectragraph of yourself
with the most impressive-looking supernatural creature Pantomath
within sight.
To you, the pursuit of knowledge is the highest calling.
Rather than constrain yourself to mere academics, however,
Infiltrator your passion stems from a visceral desire to unravel the
You have been tasked by a clandestine employer to infiltrate and deeper mysteries of the world. In your mind, anything can be
learn as much as you can about the Strangelight Workshop, its understood and rationally explained, no matter how bizarre
methods, and its secret goals. Through guile and deception, you or extraordinary a situation may initially appear. In times of
have managed to find a place in a Workshop field team, hoping great mental stress, these same motivations can cause you to
to survive each mission and report back to your benefactors. withdraw into your intellect, leading you to compulsively make
You should devise a plausible cover to explain your interest in observations at the expense of personal safety.
the Strangelight, inventing a backstory as appropriate.
Pursuing Your Calling For every full hour of downtime you spend researching general
For every full hour you spend writing reports and contacting occult lore, add +1 to your roll to restore lost Willpower.
benefactors, add +1 to your roll to restore lost Willpower.
Breaking Points
Breaking Points Annotation: When you hit your breaking point, you must spend
Confession: When you hit your breaking point, you must spend your next activation observing and taking notes, spectragraphs,
your next activation attempting to confess your true motives or otherwise recording your observations of a supernatural
to another member of the team. Make a Willpower roll against phenomenon. This may include moving to a better vantage.
a target number of 16. If the roll succeeds, you only need to
I Must Know: When you hit your breaking point, you must
hint at your deception. If the roll fails, you must confess some
spend your next activation asking direct questions to the
truth about your true reasons for being there to the nearest
nearest supernatural entity. If the creature cannot communicate
team member. You may automatically succeed on this roll by
verbally, you must try to interpret its physical mannerisms as
generating d3 Dread points.
some form of answer.
The Better Part of Valor: When you hit your breaking point, you
must spend your next activation trying to flee or hide from any
supernatural entities.
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Sentimentalist Thrill Seeker
Like many who seek a place in the Strangelight Workshop, What’s the point of life if you never truly live? This motto
you have lost loved ones to the supernatural. Unlike most, has taken you far and wide across the Iron Kingdoms. Over
you believe there is a way to get your loved one back. Through the years you have undertaken challenges that others would
rigorous study and intensive field research of knowledge consider foolish, all for the sake of a good story. Having tested
available only to Strangelight teams, you believe you are yourself against most conventional thrills, you now seek the
inching ever closer to being reunited with those loved ones supernatural, hoping to gain that rush of adrenaline in new and
you lost and miss. unbelievable ways.
Pursuing Your Calling Pursuing Your Calling

For every full hour of downtime you spend researching occult For every full hour of downtime you spend partaking in
lore that may aid in reconnecting with your lost loved one, add dangerous or foolhardy activities, add +1 to your roll to restore
+1 to your roll to restore lost Willpower. lost Willpower.
Breaking Points Breaking Points

Wistful Remembrance: When you hit your breaking point, Into the Fray: When you hit your breaking point, you must
you must spend your next activation backing away from end your next activation closer than you began it to a source of
conflict or taking cover as you are overwhelmed by mournful potential danger.
contemplation of a lost loved one. This can include obsessing
Trash Talk: When you hit your breaking point, you must
over an image or item that once belonged to that person.
spend your next activation verbally antagonizing any and all
Despair: The realization that you will never see your loved ones supernatural entities within earshot, daring them to attack you.
again is too much to bear. When you hit your breaking point,
you must spend your next activation collapsed in a heap on the Vendetta
floor. You count as being prone.
Some say revenge is a dish best served cold, and if that is
so, then your blood must be ice. You lost a loved one to a
Survivor supernatural entity or suffered the effect of such a creature
You suffered at the hands of the supernatural even before you yourself. Whatever the cause, you have a ceaseless need to right
were aware of its existence. Though similar experiences would the wrong done to you by preventing it from happening to
cause most people to shrink from further contact with the anyone else or by helping to imprison whatever occult creatures
supernatural and the inexplicable, you will not let fear control cross your path. Under most circumstances, you are able to act
you. You know the best way to stay safe is to learn more about rationally, even when confronted with such beings, but when
these strange threats and confront them, but if things get too exposed to too much you are prone to seeing red and losing
intense, you’re not above making a break for it. control as you attempt to destroy any specter, shade, or other
similar creature you encounter.
For every full hour of downtime you spend planning how to Pursuing Your Calling
handle worst-case scenarios on the field, add +1 to your roll to For every full hour of downtime you spend learning about
restore lost Willpower. the supernatural focus of your vendetta, add +1 to your roll to
restore lost Willpower.
Breaking Points
Going Unnoticed: When you hit your breaking point, you Breaking Points
must spend your next activation keeping one other character Reckless Assault: When you hit your breaking point, you must
between you and any supernatural dangers. If the only available spend your next activation conducting an all-out offensive,
movement would place you out in the open, you become using whatever abilities and equipment that might prove most
stationary instead. useful, even if holding off on them would prove to be more
tactically sound.
The Better Part of Valor: When you hit your breaking point, you
must spend your next activation trying to flee or hide from any Never Again: You will not allow the tragedy that set you on your
supernatural entities. path to occur again. When you hit your breaking point, you
must spend your next activation trying to attack a supernatural
creature with the highest EP value.
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PROFESSION Consultants
Over the course of its existence, the Strangelight Workshop In addition to the above professions, with Game Master’s
has refined its field teams into a number of dedicated roles or approval a player can play a consultant to the Strangelight
professions. Each team member contributes to an investigation Workshop, one built using traditional character creation rules.
or operation in a unique way, and over the course of an Note that these characters have access to a greater number
investigation, all play a part in the team’s success. If a field team of skills and abilities than Strangelight characters, as well
loses one of its members, the Workshop is reluctant to field as having Archetypes and related abilities. This can make a
the remaining agents until the missing role is filled. Certain consultant a formidable character in relation to the field agents.
circumstances prevent the Workshop from filling a role, such Consultant characters do not start with a Reputation score.
as when a team is operating far from the Workshop’s support At the Game Master’s discretion, a consultant can gain (and
structure or when a particular investigation must be completed lose) Reputation to denote their respect and standing with
before a new candidate can be secured. Upon the team’s return the Workshop and its leadership. Consultants cannot expend
to a chapterhouse or to Blackwell Hall, a new recruit is slotted Reputation to acquire benefits or gear in the same way as
into the open position as soon as possible. actual members.
A traditional field team consists of one member of each A player who chooses to play a consultant should talk with
profession, but that isn’t always the case. Certain branch offices the Game Master to determine an appropriate Calling and
support smaller teams, and there may be specific investigations Breaking Point for the character. Due to a lack of training, when
suited to these groups, particularly when the Workshop is a consultant suffers Willpower damage, the character suffers
gathering initial research or following up on the work of double the normal amount.
other agents. Some teams manage to get by with unusual
combinations of the typical professions, and certain extremely
dangerous tasks have necessitated merging teams or adding Character Advancement
unusual specialists to the mix. As your character’s XP total grows, you have the opportunity
In addition to the dedicated members of a field team, the to enhance their talents and attributes. Character advancement
Strangelight Workshop often brings in outside consultants. takes place between game sessions. If a character is awarded
These individuals are typically experts in a field related to enough XP to gain an advancement, you must select the
a particular investigation. While not true members of the advancement before the next game session; you cannot save XP
Workshop, many consultants have longstanding relationships for later.
with the organization and members of its upper echelon. Such Refer to the Character Advancement Table to see what
consultants are often paid by Blackwell Hall for their work, advancements are available to characters as their XP totals grow.
though in some cases they may be compensated in other ways
or might even volunteer their services. In some circumstances,
a consultant will have more field experience than the team for
Workshop Pros
which they consult. A field agent who survives multiple encounters with the
supernatural becomes a pro. Things that would send a new
After selecting your character’s Background and Calling, choose
recruit running in fear no longer phase such pros, and they have
your profession. Your profession determines not only your
a bevy of experience to draw upon.
role in a field team but also the skills and abilities you have the
opportunity to master over the course of your career—should The following benefits are available to characters of any
you survive. profession but can only be selected at 24, 50, 100, and 150 XP by
selecting the Workshop Pro Character Advancement.
Cross-Training: Choose any 2 occupational skills and 1 ability
from a Profession other than your own. Treat your selections
as if they were options available to your own Profession.
Some abilities are restricted and cannot be taken by any other
Profession, denoted by the ∉ symbol.
Mental Toughness: When you suffer Willpower damage due to
supernatural phenomenon, reduce the amount suffered by d3
points.
Trustworthy Test Case: Reduce the Reputation cost of all gear
and prototypes by half (rounding up).
Lucky Charm: When you roll a critical success on a skill or attack
roll, you may choose to gain 1 feat point, give another character
1 feat point, or reduce the total current Dread by d3.
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Character Advancement Table
HERO Level EPIC Level
XP Total Character Advancement XP Total Character Advancement
2 +2 occupational skills 100 Epic Level and Workshop Pro
4 +1 ability or military skill 105 +2 occupational skills
6 +1 Stat 110 d6+2 Reputation, Salary Increase, or Dread counter
8 +2 occupational skills 115 +1 Willpower point
10 +1 Willpower point 120 +1 Stat
12 Dread counter 125 +2 occupational skills
15 +1 Stat 130 +1 ability, connection, or military skill
18 +2 occupational skills 135 +1 Stat
21 +1 ability or military skill 140 +1 Dread counter
24 Workshop Pro 145 +2 occupational skills
27 +2 occupational skills 150 Workshop Pro
30 +1 Willpower point
+2 occupational skills – Choose two new occupational skills from
33 +1 ability or military skill
your character’s Background or Profession. Instead of adding a new
36 +1 Stat skill, you can increase the rank of an occupational skill your character
already has by 1. If you choose to do this with both new occupational
39 +2 occupational skills skills, you can increase the rank of one skill by 2. Remember the skill
42 +1 ability or military skill rank limits: a Hero character can have skills up to rank 2, a Veteran
character can have skills up to rank 3, and an Epic character can have
45 +1 Stat skills up to rank 4.
+1 military skill – Choose a new military skill from your character’s

Veteran Level Background or Profession or increase the rank of a military skill your
character already has by 1.
XP Total Character Advancement
50 Veteran level and Workshop Pro +1 ability – Choose a new ability from your character’s Profession.
55 +2 occupational skills
+1 Stat – Increase one of your character’s primary or secondary stats
60 Dread counter by 1. You cannot increase a stat beyond its maximum allowable value,
and you cannot increase a secondary stat higher than the primary stat
65 +1 Stat
that governs it.
+1 Willpower point – Increase your character’s maximum Willpower
75 d6+2 Reputation or Salary Increase
points by 1.
80 +1 Willpower point
Dread counter – Choose one of the skills your character is trained in.
85 +1 Stat
Successful rolls involving that skill no longer generate Dread.
d6+2 Reputation – Your character immediately gains additional
95 +1 ability, connection, or military skill
reputation equal to the rolled amount.
Salary Increase – Increase your character’s salary by 1 increment.
Workshop Pro – You may select a single Workshop Pro benefit.
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bouncer
The bouncer’s primary role in a Strangelight Workshop team is to protect
the physical bodies of the other agents, but just as often the bouncer serves
as a general pack mule and muscle for the group. Bouncers are expected to
hold back anyone who might try to interfere with the other team members,
such as irate property owners, victims of possession, or angry members
of the Order of Illumination. In this role, they need to be just as capable of
avoiding violence as inflicting it, since they are often required to deescalate
conflicts. They are expected to be physically strong and capable of
intimidating innocent bystanders in order to keep them out of harm’s way.
Bouncers are often the newest members of a team with the least exposure
to the supernatural world, and the higher-ups in the organization view
them as cheap, expendable laborers. Fellow field agents tend to hold
bouncers in a higher regard, thanks to them being some of the only team
members able to deal with mundane threats to life and limb. They often
work closely with the team mechanik, helping organize and carry gear.
Starting Abilities: Ignorance Is Bliss, Sentry, Stand Your Ground

Starting Skills: Hand Weapon 1 and choice of Great Weapon 1 or
Unarmed Combat 1, Detection 1
Starting Assets: Armored greatcoat, club, Strangelight goggles,
25 gc
Starting Salary & Salary Increment: You start the game with a
salary of 25 gc a month and gain a 25 gc bonus for successful
investigations. When you receive a salary increase, increase your
monthly salary and bonus amount by 25 gc.
Skills: Bribery 2, Interrogation 4, Hand Weapon 4, Great Weapon 4,
Negotiation 3, Streetwise 4, Unarmed Combat 4, General Skills 4
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Abilities Sentry II
Prerequisites: Sentry, PER 6, prevented a team member from
Barricade ∉ suffering damage or harm ten or more times.
Prerequisite: STR 6 Once per day, you can benefit from two different Sentry benefits
at the same time.
You can force even crowds to back off when you hold your
ground. When you are engaged in melee with one or more
Stand Your Ground
characters, as an action you can make a contested STR roll
against the highest available enemy STR. If your roll succeeds, Prerequisite: None
you push all enemies of equal or smaller size engaged with you
If you would be moved by a push or slam, you can spend 1 feat
12 feet (2˝) directly away in the order you choose.
point to not be moved instead and cannot be knocked down by
the slam.
Bulwark
Prerequisite: STR 6 and either Hand Weapon 2, Great Weapon, Stern Resolve
or Unarmed 2
Prerequisite: You have hit your breaking point at least three
When you make a free strike, gain an additional die on the times
damage roll. If you damage the target, it is knocked down.
When you lose your last point of Willpower and would hit your
breaking point, roll a d6. On a roll of 5 or 6, you immediately
Head-Butt regain 1 point of Willpower. This ability cannot be used again
Prerequisite: STR 5, Unarmed Combat 2 until you spend at least a full night fulfilling your Calling.
Instead of making a normal Unarmed Combat attack, you can

Thrill of the Fight
spend 1 feat point to make a head-butt attack.
Prerequisite: None
Make an unarmed melee attack roll against a target. If the attack
hits, the target is knocked down and suffers a damage roll with When you incapacitate an enemy with a melee attack, regain 1
a POW equal to your current STR. A character with a larger point of Willpower.
base is not knocked down by a head-butt attack.
Take Down
Ignorance Is Bliss ∉ Prerequisite: None
Prerequisite: None
You can use Take Down anytime you incapacitate another
Either due to stubborn skepticism or naïve inexperience, you character with an attack and while the incapacitated character
gain +2 Willpower. is in your melee range. The incapacitated character regains 1
vitality point and is no longer incapacitated but is manacled,
Sentry ∉ tied up, unconscious, or otherwise out of action for the
rest of the encounter. Depending on how the incapacitated
Prerequisite: Bouncer
character was taken down, the character may be restrained or
The Bouncer gains +1 to initiative rolls. Additionally, once per unconscious following the combat portion of the encounter.
round at the start of your activation, select from one of the
following bonuses: Threatening Presence ∉
• Patrol: At the end of your activation, you can move up to Prerequisites: Intimidation 2
30 feet (5˝).
The first time you successfully intimidate or incapacitate a living
• Escort: While within 12 feet (2˝) of you, friendly character on a new investigation, you can gain 1 feat point, gain 1
characters gain +1 to DEF and ARM. Willpower point, or remove 1 Dread from the Game Master’s pool.
• Crowd Control: Once per turn, on a successful melee
attack made against an enemy, after the attack is resolved
you can make an additional attack against another target
in melee range.
• Look Out: You and friendly characters currently in
your Command range gain boosted PER rolls against
characters attempting to sneak or surprise the team.
∉ = Not Cross-Trainable
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Caller
The caller is an individual who is able, with the assistance of specialized
equipment, to draw in and communicate with specters and other entities.
The caller’s role on the team is to speak with spirits, trying whenever
possible to glean insight into what is causing them to linger in the
physical world. When required, the caller helps guide a spirit to pass on to
Urcaen. This has the dual benefit of putting a lingering soul to rest while
allowing the passage to be observed and recorded for further study by the
Strangelight Workshop.
Arguably the most specialized and difficult to qualify for member of a
team, callers are unusual individuals with a strong connection to the
spirit world. All have had direct contact with one or more spirits before
joining the Workshop, and this experience either revealed or catalyzed a
latent sensitivity to the supernatural. Callers can sometimes see or hear
things others cannot, which can be mistaken for madness. Their attitudes
to spirits run the gamut, from those who take pity on lost souls and want
to send them to their final rest to bitter individuals who hate or resent the
spirits for terrifying the living.
Starting Abilities: Commune with Spirits, Struggle of Wills,

Reinforce Will
Starting Skills: Lore (occult) 1, Oratory 1, Rapport 1
Starting Assets: Ghost hood & carrying case, 50 gc
Skills: Deception 4, Etiquette 4, Hand Weapon 2, Oratory 2, Pistol
2, Rapport 4, Seduction 2, General Skills 4
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Abilities Spirit Flare ∉
Prerequisite: Willpower 12
Commune with Spirits ∉ When you suffer damage from an enemy attack you can spend
Prerequisite: Caller between 1 and 3 points of Willpower. For each point spent, any
incorporeal creatures in your Command range suffer d3 damage.
You have the ability to communicate with ethereal spirits,
regardless of language or cultural barriers. Some spirits
Spiritual Ally ∉
may become more powerful and even dangerous after such
communication. While wearing an active ghost hood, by Prerequisites: Caller, Commune with Spirits, Rapport 3,
forfeiting your movement or action you can enter a trance successfully aided one or more spirits in previous cases
to interact with spirits. Spirits you commune with can be
Spirits friendly to you will come to your aid against other,
spoken with as if they were alive, though their mental states
malevolent entities. These spirits protect you from possession or
are unpredictable and their memories are often sketchy and
supernatural attack.
scattered. While communing with a spirit, that spirit focuses
its attention on you. While you are in a trance, a spirit lingers nearby to protect you.
This can be a spirit you have peacefully encountered in the past
Commune with Spirits II ∉ or the spirit of a former companion who watches over with
you. Discuss with the Game Master the specific identity of your
Prerequisites: Caller, Willpower 13, guided 10 or more souls to
spiritual ally or allies.
Urcaen
Your spirit ally targets any specter, shade, or other incorporeal
Gain boosted Rapport rolls when you attempt to help a spirit
dead hostile to you that enters your Command range. While
move to the other side.
your spiritual ally is present, such entities roll 1 fewer die on
attack, spell, and ability rolls that target you.
Reinforce Will ∉
Prerequisite: Caller Whispers from the Darkness
Once per round while in combat and wearing an active ghost Prerequisite: Does not possess the Spiritual Ally ability, one or
hood, you may select one friendly character currently in your more teammates have died
Command range. That character heals d3 points of Willpower.
You think you can still hear the voice of one or more of your
former companions. Their whispers do not come often, but
Reinforce Will II ∉ when they do, it is usually in an effort to protect you and help to
Prerequisite: Caller, Reinforce Will, Veteran Tier keep you safe.
Increase the amount of Willpower healed to d6. Once per day, you can add d3 Dread points to the Game
Master’s pool in order to gain one of the following benefits.
Stern Resolve
• Don’t Give Up: Your dead teammate whispers motivation
Prerequisite: You have hit your breaking point at least three to you, inspiring you to stay strong. You immediately
times gain 1 feat point.
When you lose your last point of Willpower and would hit your • Look Out!: At the start of initiative, you hear whispers to
breaking point, roll a d6. On a roll of 5 or 6, you immediately warn you of impending danger. You gain an additional
regain 1 point of Willpower. This ability cannot be used again die on your initiative roll and discard the lowest result.
until you spend at least a full night fulfilling your Calling. • Remember what I told you. . . : A dead companion
whispers guidance about how to perform a specific
Struggle of Wills ∉ task. For one round, you gain 1 skill point in one of the
Prerequisite: Caller Starting Skills of the profession of a dead teammate.
While wearing an active ghost hood, by spending a combat action • Stay Alive: Your dead teammate encourages you to stay
you can try to erode the will of a ghost, target of possession, or alive, giving you the motivation to keep fighting. You
another similar target. Choose any ghost or similar target you regain a number of vitality equal to the Dread rolled to
are aware of in your Command range and makes a contested use this ability.
Willpower roll. The loser of the Willpower roll suffers Willpower
damage equal to the difference in the two rolls. Creatures with
an INT of 1 or lower reduced to 0 Willpower are removed from
play. Targets with a higher Willpower are stunned and must
forfeit either movement or action on their next activation or until
they have 1 or more Willpower, whichever comes first. ∉ = Not Cross-Trainable
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investigator
The investigator’s role in a Strangelight Workshop team is to observe and
record data, interpret information the team uncovers, and act as a guiding
voice to the team’s efforts. Investigators tend to be the most inquisitive
members of a field team and often take on de facto leadership roles. They
are often the core member around which a team is formed—even smaller
Strangelight teams almost always include an investigator.
One of the most important jobs the investigator performs is to document
any observations the team makes via extensive notes and the lumitype.
Images captured with a lumitype are the subject of much study by
Blackwell Hall, and providing new information about the nature of the
afterlife or supernatural entities can make a new investigator’s career.
Starting Abilities: Keen Eye, Logical Explanation, True Grit

Starting Skills: Cryptography 1, Detection 1, Forensic Science 1,
Lore (occult) 1
Starting Assets: Lumitype and 10 blank spectragraphs, notebook,
pen and ink, Strangelight goggles, 50 gc
Skills: Alchemy 4, Command 2, Forensic Science 4, Hand Weapon
2, Law 2, Negotiation 4, Pistol 3, Rapport 2, Research 4, Tracking 4,
General Skills 4
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Abilities Quick Study ∉
Prerequisite: INT 5
Astute ∉ You are adept at quickly picking up new skills and talents. You
Prerequisite: Detection 1, Investigator can use any skill you have observed in practice for at least
fifteen minutes or that has been instructed to you by someone
You can reroll failed Detection rolls. Each failed roll can be
proficient in the skill. For one hour, you treat the skill as if you
rerolled only once as a result of Astute.
had 1 point of training in it. Quick Study can be used only
once per day.
Headstrong
Prerequisite: INT 6 Quick Study II
Your powerful mind is difficult for others to control. The Prerequisites: Quick Study, INT 6, gained the Quick Study
COST of any spells that would force you to perform an action benefit five or more times.
increases by 2, and you may make a contested Willpower
When successfully gaining the benefit from Quick Study,
roll against the character targeting you in order to resist any
increase the temporary skill ranks you gain from Quick Study
abilities that would force you to perform any action against
to 2 at Hero level and 3 at Veteran and Epic. Additionally, you
your wishes.
can use this ability up to twice a day.
Inquiring Mind ∉
Shutterbug ∉
Prerequisites: INT 5, PER 5
Prerequisite: AGL 4, you have taken more than 10
The first time you discover a clue on a new investigation, you spectragraphs
can regain 1 feat point, regain 1 Willpower point, or remove 1
You are familiar with the intricacies of lumitypes. You can
Dread from the Game Master’s pool.
reload a lumitype as a free action and take a spectragraph as a
quick action.
Keen Eye ∉
Prerequisite: Investigator Shutterbug II
You can add 1 Dread point to the Game Master’s pool to spot Prerequisites: Shutterbug, AGL 5
a clue missed due to a failed Detection roll. This ability can be
As a full action, you can take advantage of a lumitype’s flash to
used a total of three times in a scene. Each additional time you
temporarily blind a supernatural or possessed creature. Perform
use this ability, the Dread cost increases by 1.
a ranged attack using POI + Detection. If the attack hits, the
target supernatural creature suffers –2 to attack rolls for one
Logical Explanation ∉ round.
Prerequisite: Investigator
You can use a quick action to try to rationally explain a current
True Grit ∉
source of horror and make an INT roll against a target number Prerequisite: Investigator
of 11. On a successful roll, all friendly characters currently in
When you fail a Willpower roll, you can spend 1 feat point to
your Command range restore 1 point of lost WILL. Logical
succeed instead.
Explanation can be used only once per scene.
Outfox
Prerequisite: INT 6, the character has been knocked out or
incapacitated by a melee attack more than once
When an enemy hits you with a melee attack, add 1 Dread
point to the Game Master’s pool and make an INT roll. If your
roll total is higher than the attack roll, the attack misses. After
using this ability, you cannot use it again until you are hit by a
melee attack.
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jammer
Perhaps the most unique Strangelight profession, the jammer
evolved as a role in teams after numerous casualties resulting
from encounters with hostile spirits and other supernatural
creatures. The jammer is a fighting specialist who confronts specters
head on, outfitted and trained to intercept and incapacitate them. As
with the bouncer, the jammer’s focus is on keeping the team safe and
allowing more academic members to do their jobs. This requires restraint—it
is easier for a jammer to botch an investigation than for any other member of
the team. A ghost that is obliterated too quickly tells no tales.
Since the caller is the team member who attracts the attention of spirits and
helps make them tangible, they are in special peril, and it is the jammer’s
top priority to protect the caller by wrangling threatening supernatural
entities. The jammer uses specialized equipment that shields the field agent
from incorporeal entities and can physically interact with specters and
other spirits.
Starting Abilities: Fight Through the Horror, Ghost Puncher,

Oh No You Don’t, Nerves of Steel
Starting Skills: Detection 1, Unarmed Combat 1
Starting Assets: Hostile encounter suit, 25 gc
Skills: Hand Weapon 2, Survival 2, Unarmed Combat 4,
General Skills 4
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Abilities Self Sacrifice
Prerequisite: Unarmed 2, at least one companion has been
Bob & Weave grievously injured by a supernatural creature
Prerequisite: Unarmed Combat 2 When a friendly character within 6 feet (1˝) of you is hit with a
melee attack, you can choose to be hit instead.
As a quick action, you can move up to 18 feet (3˝). During this
movement, you gain +3 to DEF against free strikes.
Subdual
Fight Through the Horror ∉ Prerequisite: None
Prerequisite: Jammer You gain boosted grapple rolls made against supernatural or
possessed creatures.
You can spend 1 Willpower point to boost any melee damage
rolls made against supernatural enemies or threats for the turn.
Thrill of the Fight
Fight Through the Horror II Prerequisite: None
Prerequisites: Fight Through the Horror, PRW 6, single- When you incapacitate an enemy with a melee attack, regain 1
handedly destroyed at least five supernatural creatures in point of Willpower.
combat.
Thrill of the Fight II ∉
Change the benefit of Fight Through the Horror to an additional
die. Prerequisites: Thrill of the Fight, Unarmed Combat 3, have
been outnumbered by supernatural creatures in combat three or
Ghost Puncher ∉ more times.
Prerequisite: Jammer After incapacitating an enemy with a melee attack, you can
either regain 1 Willpower point or make an additional melee
While engaging a supernatural creature, the Jammer gains
attack.
one additional attack or quick action, chosen at the start of the
character’s activation.
Hammer Strike (a.k.a., “Ghost Puncher II”)

Prerequisite: Ghost Puncher, Unarmed 3
You throw caution to the wind, attempting a powerful strike
that leaves you open to reprisal. For the round, double your STR
when determining the P + S of your unarmed attacks. Until the
start of your next round, you suffer –2 DEF.
Nerves of Steel ∉
Prerequisite: Jammer
At the end of each of your activations, you heal 1 point of
Willpower.
Oh No You Don’t! ∉
Prerequisite: None
The Game Master must pay double the Dread points when
activating the Dread abilities of a supernatural creature within
your melee range.
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mechanik
The mechanik’s role in a Strangelight Workshop team is to operate and
maintain much of the finicky and often hazardous gear the team uses
in the field. This task requires a great deal of technical know-how and a
healthy dose of intuition, luck, and courage. Mechaniks are responsible for
handling the Strangelight projector itself, making them invaluable during
an investigation. Investigations may require other bulky gear for them to
manage and maintain, and they often require the assistance of the bouncer.
Mechaniks and investigators are usually the most heavily trained and
experienced members of a given team, in part because they are less often
directly in harm’s way and their protection is vital for the team to endure
and succeed. Mechaniks receive considerable hands-on training by senior
agents regarding the essential Strangelight equipment, learning them
from the inside out. They must become familiar with sometimes-esoteric
tools and the myriad ways experimental gear can fail as well as how to
restore them.
Starting Abilities: Percussive Maintenance, Problem Solver,

Technical Expertise
Starting Skills: Mechanikal Engineering 1, Rope Use 1
Starting Assets: Mechanik’s apron, mechanik’s toolkit,
Strangelight goggles, 40 gc
Skills: Craft (metalworking) 4, Great Weapon 2, Hand Weapon 4,
Lock Picking 2, Mechanikal Engineering 4, Pistol 2, Research 2,
Rifle 2, Rope Use 4, General Skills 4
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Abilities Problem Solver ∉
Prerequisite: None
Cast Iron ∉ By spending a full action and making a successful Mechanikal
Prerequisite: Mechanikal Engineering 2 Engineering roll against a target number of 14, the Mechanik
may remove a single Complication from a scene. The player
Years of banging your knuckles, skull, and joints on machines
must provide a narrative reason for the Complication removal,
during repairs have toughened you up. You gain a +1 ability
and the Game Master must approve it.
bonus to ARM.
Quick Fix ∉
Demolish ∉
Prerequisite: Mechanikal Engineering 1
Prerequisite: Mechanik, Mechanikal Engineering 3, Percussive
Maintenance You know how to affect hasty field repairs on damaged
equipment. You can spend a full action to repair a disabled
When you increase or decrease a construct, machine, or other
or broken piece of gear or machinery well enough that it will
object’s vitality with Percussive Maintenance, roll d6+1 instead
function for a number of rounds equal to your Mechanikal
of d3+1.
Engineering skill level. You can use Quick Fix once per disabled
or broken device.
Gearhead’s Touch
Prerequisite: PER 4, Mechanikal Engineering 1, you have rolled Scavenger
on the catastrophic failure table at least three times
When you roll on the catastrophic failure table to determine a
You are skilled at recognizing the most important and
prototype’s catastrophic failure, roll twice and choose the result.
expensive components of any piece of equipment, particularly
in the prototypes deployed by the Strangelight Workshop.
Technophile ∉
When a piece of Strangelight equipment or prototype is
Prerequisite: Mechanik, Mechanikal Engineering 2
destroyed, you can make a Mechanikal Engineering roll
Even if you’ve never seen an item before, you have a pretty against a target number of 14. If the roll succeeds, you recover
decent idea of how it works. If you spent a full action studying a enough important material to reduce the Reputation cost of a
weapon or item that requires a skill you do not possess, you can replacement by half.
make an INT + Mechanikal Engineering roll against a target
number of 14. If the roll succeeds, you can use your Mechanikal Technical Proficiency ∉
Engineering skill in place of the required skill for the remainder
of the encounter.
The first time you repair a broken or damaged device, prototype,
Technical Expertise ∉ or other machine on a new investigation, you can gain 1 feat
point, gain 1 Willpower point, or remove 1 Dread from the
Prerequisite: Mechanik
Game Master’s pool.
The Game Master must pay double the amount of Dread
in order to cause equipment wielded by the Mechanik to Weapon Specialization [’jack wrench]
malfunction or fail.
Prerequisite: Hand Weapon 2
Percussive Maintenance ∉ You are familiar with wielding a heavy mechanik’s wrench as
an improvised weapon. You ignore the attack roll penalty for
Prerequisite: Mechanik
using a ’jack wrench and gain +1 to damage rolls with it.
If this character has adequate tools, the character can make
a Mechanikal Engineering roll against a target number of 12
to repair or sabotage constructs, machines, and other objects CATS
within reach. While not assigned by the quartermaster or considered “official”
equipment, field teams are loath to work without one or more cats
The character can increase or decrease the target’s vitality by on hand. Cats seem able to see multiple invisible entities, most
d3+1 points. importantly the grymkin called gremlins—and cats hate gremlins.
Due to the havoc gremlins can wreak on the Workshop’s machines,
keeping a few cats around at all times is simply common sense. Cats
should be named and their personalities denoted so their inevitable
loss will be felt.
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NEW WEAPONS & GEAR Charged Gauntlets

Cost: Special (600 gc, 6 Reputation)
The Strangelight Workshop fabricates numerous devices useful
Skill: Unarmed Combat
for the execution of an investigation. These items are typically
available only to members of the Workshop, though a few do Attack Modifier: 0
end up falling into the hands of others following the death of a
POW: 2
team. The Workshop enjoys secrecy, particularly in relation to
its technological developments. Rune Points: 2
The following are new items unique to the Strangelight Description: Charged gauntlets are a pair of heavy mechanikal
Workshop. In addition to a physical cost, certain items have gloves incorporated into the hostile encounter suit. Able to be
a Reputation cost as well. The Reputation cost reflects the switched on or off, while active and drawing power from the
quartermasters of the Strangelight Workshop being reluctant suit they produce a powerful electrical charge proven capable
to pass out expensive and proprietary technology beyond what of damaging supernatural creatures or giving a living threat a
they consider strictly necessary. If a character must replace a nasty shock.
lost piece of technology, that character’s Reputation goes down
Special Rules: This weapon causes electrical damage and can
in relation to how important or expensive the equipment is.
damage incorporeal characters. Activating or deactivating
charged gauntlets requires a quick action.
Antispectral Ammunition
Cost: Normal ammunition cost +2 gc for 5 rounds A character other than a Jammer wearing charged gauntlets
rolls 1 fewer die on attack and skill rolls while wearing it due to
Description: Antispectral ammunition, sometimes called “ghost lack of training. This is not cumulative with the penalty from
chaser” rounds, are bullets treated with a solution including the hostile encounter suit.
ectoplasm and Ashes of Urcaen in order to make them effective
against incorporeal entities. Fabrication: The material cost of the weapon’s housing is 25 gc.
It takes one week to construct the device. The pertinent Craft
Special Rules: A firearm loaded with antispectral ammunition skill for construction is Craft (metalworking).
can damage incorporeal characters but rolls one fewer damage
die. The weapon’s runeplates require two weeks to inscribe and
requires a successful INT + Mechanikal Engineering roll against
a target number of 14.
Bouncer’s Baton
Cost: 370 gc, 5 Reputation Charged gauntlets are not normally available outside the
Strangelight Workshop or separate from a hostile encounter suit,
Skill: Hand Weapon but they can sell for up to 600 gc to the right buyer.
Attack Modifier: 0
POW: 2
Rune Points: 2
Description: A simple piece of mechanika developed to assist
bouncers in clearing unwanted individuals from the site of an
investigation, the bouncer’s baton produces a painful, though
not deadly, electrical shock on contact. Most strikes are simply
painful, but the weapon can cause the nervous system of a
living individual to go haywire for a short time. The weapon is
powered by an alchemical capacitor in the grip.
Special Rules: This weapon causes electrical damage. On a critical
hit with this weapon, the target hit is stunned. A stunned target
suffers –2 to skill and attack rolls on its next activation.
Fabrication: The material cost of the weapon’s housing is 18 gc.
It takes one week to construct the device. The pertinent Craft
skill for construction is Craft (metalworking).
The weapon’s runeplates require two weeks to inscribe and
requires a successful INT + Mechanikal Engineering roll against
a target number of 14.
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Hostile Encounter Suit
Cost: 1350 gc, 12 Reputation
SPD Modifier: 0
Activating or deactivating the armor requires a quick action.
DEF Modifier: –1
Fabrication: The material cost of a hostile encounter suit is 255
ARM Modifier: 7
gc. It takes one month to construct the armor. The pertinent
Rune Points: 4 Craft skill for construction is Craft (metalworking).
Description: Worn exclusively by jammers, the hostile encounter Hostile encounter suit runeplates require four weeks to scribe
suit is a complex piece of equipment developed to aid in and requires a successful INT + Mechanikal Engineering roll
defending against and capturing incorporeal entities. The hood against a target number of 16.
includes a set of Strangelight goggles, and both gloves contain
charged gauntlets (see above), allowing the wearer to physically Known Incorporeal & Disembodied Entities, 2nd Edition
interact with and damage otherwise incorporeal foes. While
Cost: Free to members of the Strangelight Workshop, 5 gc
powered, the suit inflates with special gas containing a finely
wherever fine books are sold
dispersed form of Ashes of Urcaen that receives an arcane
charge from the suit’s capacitor. An arcanodynamic accumulator Description: The Strangelight Workshop endeavors to keep
set into the back piece powers the armor. an abridged volume of information on common entities. This
book, now in its second edition, was produced by former
Special Rules: While this armor has power, the wearer cannot
and current agents and includes information gathered by
be possessed by supernatural or magical means, and characters
experienced individuals outside the Workshop like the
with the Incorporeal ability cannot move through the character.
esteemed Professor Pendrake of Corvis University. Nicknamed
A character other than a Jammer wearing a hostile encounter “the Specternomicon” by Strangelight Workshop field agents, it
suit rolls 1 fewer die on attack and skill rolls while wearing it contains entries on commonly encountered supernatural fauna.
due to lack of training. This is not cumulative with the penalty
Special Rules: A character who observes an incorporeal or
from the charged gauntlets.
supernatural creature for at least 1 round can spend an action
Replacing the gas canisters must be done once a week and looking up information in Known Incorporeal and Disembodied
requires five minutes and the proper tools. Fresh gas canisters Entities, 2nd Edition. A character who does so automatically
are provided free of charge upon mission assignment, but extras learns the first Lore entry associated with the observed creature.
can be acquired for 2 Reputation apiece.
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Mechanik’s Apron
Cost: 50 gc
SPD Modifier: 0
DEF Modifier: –1
ARM Modifier: 6
Description: A mechanik’s apron is a heavy leather apron,
sometimes backed with chainmail, designed to protect the
wearer from bits of flying metal, gears, and other mechanikal
components in the event of catastrophic machine failure. A
mechanik’s apron has numerous pockets, pouches, and straps
sewn into it to hold a collection of useful tools.
Sensory Augmentation Hood (“Ghost Hood”)

Description: Used exclusively by Callers, the sensory
augmentation hood, or “ghost hood,” grants these spiritually
sensitive individuals the ability to communicate with spectral
entities by cutting off their ability to perceive the outside
world. Ghost hoods also include standard Strangelight goggles
mounted within the hood, though these tend to be less precise
than the bulkier dedicated goggles worn by most field agents.
While activated, the ghost hood prevents the wearer from
effectively hearing or seeing while drastically increasing their
Lumitype, Handheld ability to perceive the spirit world.
Cost: 25 gc, 3 Reputation Special Rules: Wearing the hood while active imposes a –1 die
penalty on all rolls related to ordinary sight or sound but allows
Description: The handheld lumitype is one of the most
Callers to use their special abilities. The hood includes a pair of
effective pieces of field equipment used by the Strangelight
Strangelight goggles, but when active, the googles go inert and
Workshop. Combining a small Strangelight projector and an
the Caller can hear only spirits.
image-capturing system, the lumitype gives agents the ability
to take images, called spectragraphs, of the supernatural Activating or deactivating the hood requires a quick action.
entities they encounter. The Strangelight Workshop also
deploys larger, fixed lumitypes at sites known to have high Spectral Compass
levels of spectral activity. Fixed lumitypes are typically
unmanned and shoot at predetermined intervals, using an
automated feed to reload blank spectragraph plates. Description: The spectral compass is a handheld device about
three inches in diameter. Fabricated with known spiritually
Special Rules: A lumitype includes a small Strangelight
resonant materials and inscribed with occult runes, a needle set
projector able to produce a cone of light up to 36 feet (SP 6).
on the compass points in the general direction of potent sources
A character can use an action to capture an image with a of spiritual energy.
lumitype.
Special Rules: A character can spend a full action to consult a
Reloading a lumitype with a blank spectragraph is a quick action. spectral compass. A character consulting a spectral compass
gains the Sensitive background ability for 1 round.
Blank spectragraph plates come in packs of five. Investigators
are issued packs of spectragraphs on mission assignment, but
Strangelight Goggles
additional packs can be acquired at a cost of 1 Reputation.
Developing the image on a spectragraph requires a field
alchemy kit and five minutes spent processing the plate Description: The special goggles worn by Strangelight
followed by an INT + Alchemy roll against a target number of Workshop agents are elaborate, consisting of multiple sets
10. If the roll fails the image is distorted or otherwise unusable of alchemically treated lenses within a heavy-duty housing.
at the Game Master’s discretion. Controls allow a field agent to select different combinations of
lenses to filter wavelengths of Strangelight.
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Goggles are a key piece of any field agent’s equipment. Without
them, things illuminated by Strangelight are at best blurry
Strangelight Prototypes
and indistinct, but with the appropriate selection of lenses, the The prototypes used by the Strangelight Workshop are odd and
invisible become visible. Further, goggles help delay the process largely untested pieces of mechanika that are as dangerous as
of becoming voided, a term used for the effect of long-term they are useful. Quartermaster Cronan Bailey acts reluctant to
exposure to Strangelight. allow such devices to fall into the hands of untested field agents,
tested field agents, and basically anyone other than himself and
Special Rules: In combination with a source of Strangelight,
his assistant, but field tests of such equipment are invaluable
like a lumitype or projector, a character wearing Strangelight
and necessary. Someone always has to take the bullet.
goggles can see invisible creatures and objects, as well as
spiritual energy. To properly view these, the goggles must be If an investigation requires a particular prototype to succeed,
tuned by adjusting the settings of lenses within them. it will be issued to the field agents without requiring the
expenditure of Reputation. However, a team may attempt to
Adjusting settings of goggles is an action. To achieve a proper
acquire prototypes beyond what is considered standard for an
setting, the character must make a PER roll against a target
assignment. Attempting to haggle with a quartermaster for
number equal to the encounter points of the entity being
a prototype is a contested Negotiation skill roll. If the rolling
viewed. Creatures or objects without an encounter point value
character succeeds, the prototype can be acquired for the
are treated as EP 8 for the purpose of such rolls.
requisite Reputation cost. If the roll fails, the quartermaster
A character with Strangelight goggles can see creatures without will not provide any additional prototypes for the current
a proper setting but roll one fewer die on Detection, ranged investigation. The roll can be attempted only once per team per
attack, and magic attack rolls targeting the creature due to it investigation.
being blurry, indistinct, or otherwise poorly visible.
Most prototypes are only loaned to a field team. Those who
desire to permanently acquire a prototype need to meet a
minimum XP requirement and pay a higher Reputation cost.
VOIDING
Multiphase Subaudible Frequency Generator
An unfortunate side effect of long-term exposure to Strangelight,
voiding is an irreversible condition that causes the iris and pupil to Cost: 3 Reputation (On Loan); 6 Reputation, 9 XP (Permanent
turn white. Within the Strangelight Workshop, voiding is seen as
Acquisition)
an unavoidable condition and a marker of experience. Most outside
the Workshop consider voiding an unfortunate disfigurement. Some Description: A bulky device covered in a collection of dials,
experienced researchers believe there may be a supernatural,
spiritual component to voiding as well, but as yet this is speculation the multiphase subaudible frequency generator, or “noisebox,”
and requires further study. produces a range of subaudible harmonic frequencies believed
to be audible to spirit entities. The prototype is known to have a
disquieting effect on living individuals, causing them to become
more irritable or experience a general sense of dread.
Strangelight Projector
Special Rules: While activated, the device emits subaudible
Cost: 460 gc, 10 Reputation sound in an area approximately 150 feet (25˝) in diameter.
Rune Points: 3 Shades, specters, and other disembodied dead in the area must
make a successful Willpower roll against a target number of 15
Description: The Strangelight projector is one of the most or be compelled to investigate the device. Living characters in
critical pieces of field equipment deployed by the Strangelight the area suffer a –1 penalty to Willpower rolls.
Workshop. A dedicated piece of mechanika, a projector emits
Strangelight wavelengths, which, in combination with specially
Disharmonic Static Generation Unit
treated goggles, allow the user to perceive spiritual energy
and otherwise invisible things. Every field team brings at least Cost: 4 Reputation (On Loan); 8 Reputation, 12 XP (Permanent
a single portable projector into the field, and most also bring Acquisition)
multiple backup projectors that can be mounted on tripods. Description: A bulky piece of mechanika approximately
Worth noting fine details are sometimes still not visible to the thirty inches on a side, the disharmonic static generation unit
eye and will only be revealed after lumitype exposure. produces a low-yield arcane static in a small area that has the
Special Rules: A Strangelight projector produces a cone of effect of making disembodied spirits uncomfortable. A specter
Strangelight up to 60 feet (SP 10). In an affected area, characters or spirit can pass into the affected area but to do so seems to be
wearing Strangelight goggles can see invisible, incorporeal, or distracting and painful to the spirit.
otherwise magically hidden creatures and objects. Strangelight Special Rules: While activated, the device emits a field
allows the viewer to perceive spiritual energy of all kinds, approximately 30 feet in diameter. Shades, specters, and other
though without a pair of properly tuned goggles, such energy disembodied dead in the area suffer a –2 penalty to skill, attack,
appears as hazy, indistinct, or faint. ability, and magic attack rolls.
A Strangelight projector is powered by an alchemical capacitor.
It can operate continuously for one hour on a single charge.
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Spectral Containment Unit Prototype Malfunction

Cost: 5 Reputation (On Loan); 10 Reputation, 15 XP (Permanent
Prototypes can suffer irritating or dangerous breakdowns in the
Acquisition)
field.
Description: Designed on principles similar to those used to
The Game Master can spend 3 Dread points at any time to
make soul cages, spectral containment units are bulky pieces of
cause a prototype malfunction and force a roll on the prototype
mechanikal equipment designed to capture and house spirits
malfunction table.
for long-term containment and study.
Additionally, a character who performs an action with a
Special Rules: If a spirit could be made to pass to Urcaen, it
prototype who rolls all 1s must immediately roll on the
can be housed in a spectral containment unit instead. Barring
prototype malfunction table and resolve the rolled result.
prototype failure, the spirit is trapped within the unit until it is
released by someone in control of the unit.
PROTOTYPE MALFUNCTION TABLE
Note that a spectral containment unit is still an unreliable
prototype; Game Masters are encouraged to use Dread to cause 2d6 roll Result
them to malfunction whenever the release of a violent and 2 Delayed Reaction
dangerous spirit would prove the most entertaining.
3 Catastrophic Failure
4 Engine Noise
5 Inevitable Malfunction
6–7 Malfunction
8 Mechanikal Failure
9 Too Hot to Handle
10 Ghastly Magnet
11 Surge
12 Wild Discharge
Catastrophic Failure: The prototype begins to whine, emit sparks,

heat up, and violently shake. At the start of the character’s next
Maintenance Phase, the prototype bursts apart in a dramatic
failure, potentially exploding into fragments or firing off wild
bolts of arcane energy.
The prototype is destroyed and is no longer usable. The character
currently in possession of the prototype and d3 characters within 6
feet (1˝) suffer a POW 8 damage roll.
Delayed Reaction: The prototype does nothing for the current
action but make a series of disheartening clunks.
Either at the start of the character’s next Maintenance Phase
or when would be the funniest/most inconvenient, at the Game
Master’s discretion, the prototype powers on and produces all
normal effects.
Engine Noise: The device begins to emit a deafening noise, like a
high-pitched shriek or loud grinding sound.
Characters within 100 yards (50˝) can hear the device. Characters
within 30 feet (10˝) have trouble hearing anything but the device.
This effect lasts for d3 rounds.
Ghastly Magnet: The prototype emits a field of arcane static that
draws the supernatural like a magnet.
For d3+1 rounds, any incorporeal creatures within 120 feet (20˝)
must make a Willpower roll against a target number of 14. If the
roll fails, the creatures must end their activation closer to the
prototype than they began.
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Inevitable Malfunction: Something important and fragile The following table offers guidelines for setting Rapport target
slips out of place, getting in the way of something even more numbers, but like many social skills, the exact situation in game
important and fragile. It’s only a matter of time before the might suggest deviations from these general guidelines.
inevitable failure of the device.
The next time the prototype is used and the roll is a critical, the Target Number Situation
action automatically fails, and the prototype is destroyed. Determine someone is in a state of shock or
10
calming down an irritated person.
Malfunction: The prototype does not function this turn, but it
Determine someone is hostile to you or calming
does make some alarming sparks, noises, and heats up to an 12
down an angry person.
uncomfortable degree.
Determine someone is not telling you the whole
14
Mechanikal Failure: A bolt or screw slips loose, causing a critical truth or calming down an infuriated person.
component to fall off of the prototype and land at the character’s The character being spoken to is skilled in
+1 or more
feet. Deception (1 per level of the Deception skill).
The device does not function until the missing component is No common language with the character being
+4
spoken to.
repaired. The character can spend a quick action to make a
Mechanikal Engineering roll against a target number of 10 to
repair the missing component. If the roll is a critical success, the Assisted Rapport Rolls: One additional character trained in
character makes the machine work despite the missing component, Rapport can assist in a Rapport skill roll. The character with
which must not have been all that important in the first place. the higher Rapport modifier (stat chosen by the Game Master +
Rapport level) makes the roll and adds 1 to the result to the die
Surge: The prototype functions at extreme capacity for a
roll for each of the assisting character’s levels in Rapport.
moment, tearing itself apart in the process.
Detect Possession: A character skilled in Rapport can
Until the end of the user’s next activation, actions performed
sometimes tell when the person they are interacting with is
with the device gain an additional die. Prototype weapons gain an
being controlled by a supernatural entity or through magic.
additional die to attack and damage rolls. At the end of the user’s
next activation, the prototype is destroyed. When your character makes an attempt to detect possession,
you make a roll using a stat determined by the Game Master,
Too Hot to Handle: The prototype heats up to an alarming
usually PER. The TN of this roll is equal to the Willpower of the
degree. Metal surfaces become red hot, and the device starts
source of the possession.
spewing clouds of black smoke.
Game Master Notes: Rapport allows a character to intuit the
Roll a d6. For that number of rounds, a character in contact with
emotional state of another, but it isn’t magic. A character skilled
the prototype must make a PHY roll against a target number of
in Deception is able to suppress indications of their current
11 or drop the prototype immediately. If the roll succeeds, the
emotional state. Rapport does not allow a character to infallibly
character suffers 1 point of fire damage but may use it normally for
read someone’s mind, and it is possible for a character to
that round.
misinterpret the cues they observe.
Wild Discharge: The prototype activates with a wild crackle of
Note that the Rapport skill has two components. One is a kind
arcane energy before falling dormant.
of “social detection” that allows the character to catch cues and
Randomly select a character within 30 feet (5˝) of the device. That gain insight into the mental state of the person they are talking
character suffers a POW 10 magic damage roll. to. The other is a more traditional social skill, wherein the
character says what they need to in order to calm down or elicit
empathy from someone.
NEW SKILL: RAPPORT
Rapport (Social)
Rapport is the ability to read the emotional state of another,
CAUSE A SPIRIT TO MOVE ON
spot changes in that person’s attitude or demeanor, and respond Callers in the Strangelight Workshop rely on Rapport to cause spirits
to pass on to Urcaen. This action cannot be performed on a spirit
accordingly in a social context to affect the other’s mood and that is currently hostile to the Caller.
demeanor, usually seeking to calm them or establish a bond. To make a spirit pass on, the Caller and spirit make a contested
Rapport roll. If the Caller’s roll is higher, the spirit suffers damage
Untrained Rapport: A character unskilled in Rapport can to its life spiral or vitality equal to the difference in the two rolls.
attempt to guess the emotions of another but runs a far greater A spirit that loses its last vitality point due to this roll passes to
risk of failure. Increase the target number for unskilled Rapport Urcaen, a process that takes only a few moments. If the spirit’s
roll is higher, it suffers no damage and might try to flee, attack, or
rolls by +2. perform some other action the Game Master deems appropriate.
Rapport Rolls: When your character makes a Rapport attempt,
you make a roll using a stat determined by the Game Master
and add your character’s Rapport level.
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IRON KINGDOMS RPG

T he mysterious industrialist Jacob Strathmoore founded the

Baxter Roan (Investigator), Sydney Wright (Bouncer),

BACKGROUND otherwise restricted university libraries, assistance in dealing

Military or City Watch

CALLING Breaking Point

Pursuing Your Calling

Pursuing Your Calling Pursuing Your Calling

Breaking Points Breaking Points

Glory Hound Pact Bound

Pursuing Your Calling Pursuing Your Calling

Breaking Points Breaking Points

4 +1 ability or military skill 105 +2 occupational skills

6 +1 Stat 110 d6+2 Reputation, Salary Increase, or Dread counter

8 +2 occupational skills 115 +1 Willpower point

10 +1 Willpower point 120 +1 Stat

12 Dread counter 125 +2 occupational skills

15 +1 Stat 130 +1 ability, connection, or military skill

18 +2 occupational skills 135 +1 Stat

21 +1 ability or military skill 140 +1 Dread counter

24 Workshop Pro 145 +2 occupational skills

27 +2 occupational skills 150 Workshop Pro

+1 military skill – Choose a new military skill from your character’s

Salary Increase – Increase your character’s salary by 1 increment.

Workshop Pro – You may select a single Workshop Pro benefit.

Starting Abilities: Ignorance Is Bliss, Sentry, Stand Your Ground

Instead of making a normal Unarmed Combat attack, you can

Starting Abilities: Commune with Spirits, Struggle of Wills,

Starting Abilities: Keen Eye, Logical Explanation, True Grit

Starting Abilities: Fight Through the Horror, Ghost Puncher,

Hammer Strike (a.k.a., “Ghost Puncher II”)

Starting Abilities: Percussive Maintenance, Problem Solver,

NEW WEAPONS & GEAR Charged Gauntlets

Sensory Augmentation Hood (“Ghost Hood”)

Spectral Containment Unit Prototype Malfunction

9 Too Hot to Handle

Catastrophic Failure: The prototype begins to whine, emit sparks,

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